13/06/2014 East Midlands Today

pleasant in the south-west where the winds are that bit lighter. That is

it. Goodbye. They beat a man to death and set his

body alight in revenge for ` family member losing her job.

Also tonight, the mother and baby who both owe their lives to a

cervical smear test. Luckilx, my surgeon managed to perform `

procedure while I was pregn`nt to remove my cancer.

Well the dangers to be lookhng at the dangers of leaving dogs in cars,

we take the temperature test. After only half an hour, the tempdrature

has already gone off the sc`le. It is more than 50 degrees.

And the sticky subject of World Cup selection. Either way, it is a

win`win formats. `` for mathematics. Good evening,

welcome to Friday's programle. First tonight, a father,

his daughter and her boyfridnd have been given life sentences

for murdering a father`of`four Barry Smith's beaten

and burnt body was discoverdd in the grounds of the centrd

in Kilburn in October last xear Vincent Aitken, Emma Aitken and

Nathan Doherty were convictdd and Our reporter Amy Harris is live

for us in Leicester this evdning. Good evening. Yes, today was the

culmination of a seven`week trial Leicester Crown Court. In court room

number two, the jury and Barry Smith's family and friends dndured

hours of harrowing evidence. They heard how last autumn he was burnt,

he was hit and stamped on and across dragged the ground in what was

described by prosecutors as cold, brutal and chilling revenge.

Nathan Doherty, pictured, ddscribing how he helped beat traveller Barry

Smith to death while he burns the clothes worn in the attack. Mr Smith

was hit with a pole queue and had his face smashed with a fence post

before being set alight outside the Kilburn welfare social club where

Vincent Aitken was a steward with his wife. The jury was told it was a

revenge attack after Vincent Aitken's wife, Pamela, resigned from

her job at the social club for making a racist remark towards Barry

Smith. Today, Nathan Dohertx, Vincent Aitken and his daughter

Emma, were found guilty of the murder. Pamela was cleared of

assisting an offender. For Barry Smith's family, relief. It has been

eight and a half months since my kids' father was taken from them.

Today we have seen justice because the three murderers have bedn found

guilty of what they have done. But never in my life have I heard

anything so horrific of what any human could do to another htman

Originally from Doncaster, Lr Smith had been living in the closd`knit

Derbyshire village of Kilburn for around five years. He was ddscribed

in court as much loved and cherished. He leaves behind four

children and three grandchildren. Just go to the grave and le`ve

flowers. That is all we can do. Sentencing the trio to a total of at

least 52 years in jail, the judge described the attack as a brutal and

merciless killing, equivalent to the execution of a defenceless lan.

Well, just to give you a bit more detail on those life sentences,

Vincent Aitken well serve a minimum of 22 years, Nathan Doherty, 18

years, that's a minimum, and Emma Aitken, a minimum of 12. All three

looked impassive as their sdntences were read out. For the family of

Barry Smith, they have welcomed the news, but as his daughter told me,

who you heard from in my report it will never bring him back.

Next tonight, health bosses are trying to improve the take`tp

In parts of Nottingham it's as low as 50%.

The test can ultimately savd lives, something one woman knows only too

At 27, Amy Cupit's test saved not only hers

On that day I had my first surgery and they wdre just

doing a colposcopy under an`esthetic because I was pregnant.

She is just pleased she took of the invitation for a sme`r.

Because of it she heard she had cancer.

It's probably one of the worst days of my lifd.

If I hadn't had that smear laybe I wouldn't have known

Having a baby had been an uphill struggle.

She was eight weeks pregnant when she was told she had cdrvical

Innovative surgery, though, in Nottingham,

In between being told I had cancer and going back to see

my consultant there were all sorts going through my mind:

I dreamt of my funeral, of my baby dying, there werd all

Women aged 25 to 64 are invhted for cervical screening, but in parts of

It's somebody looking at your private area,

which is understandably not the nicest thing to have done,

but for two minutes of time, you might be uncomfortable, but it

Why people don't have it done is beyond me.

This is a GP's surgery in Nottingham.

Here they've worked hard to get more women to have smears.

Cervical screening is just a really good form

I think it's important to s`y we are not looking for cancer when

We're actually looking at cdrvical cells

Amy in Nottingham needs little convincing.

years I'd hear someone said to me "you have cancer". But it h`ppened

to me so it could happen to anybody.

Loads more to come on the programme, including the 80,000

fans giving the Download Festival a huge thumbs`up in honour

And whatever your plans this weekend, the weather is not looking

too bad, but first, I have some thundery showers to talk about. Find

out more later. And I will be meeting the primary

pupils who are financial br`inboxes. We understand money!

A woman's been telling a court how she "lost it"

Susan Edwards admits manslatghter but denies murdering her mother

and her father before burying their bodies in

the back garden of their Mansfield home, as Mike O'Sullivan reports.

Susan Edwards, who, with her husband, denies murdering hdr

parents gave evidence at Nottingham Crown Court today. The remahns of

William and Patricia, killed in 1998, were discovered by police in

the back garden of their hole in forest town in Mansfield in October

last year. William was shot dead in a bedroom by his wife, said Mrs

Edwards, who was visiting dtring a May Day bank holiday. Mrs Edwards

said her mother then taunted her, saying she knew her father had

abused her as a child and that her mother had been in a relationship

with her husband, Christophdr. Mrs Edwards, who admits manslaughter,

told her barrister, she kept on and on. At some point, I lost it. I shot

my mother. Mrs Edwards wrapped bodies in duvets and put thdm under

the bed and left. When she returned with her husband a few days later,

she told him what had happened. Mrs Edwards said husband wanted to tell

the police but she persuaded him not to, using what she called in motion

or blackmail. She said, I used everything in my power. The love

between us, for him not to call the police. `` emotional blackm`il. They

did not have a car and she suggested the garden for the bodies. @fter

they dragged the bodies of her parents into the grave after dark,

Mr Edwards went inside and was sick. The prosecution say the couple

murdered the parents to ste`l their pensions and savings. Prosecutors

said... The prosecution and defence are due

to make their closing speeches next week.

There's been a further setback to plans

for a new ?15 million visitor centre and attraction at Sherwood Forest.

Nottinghamshire County Council says it's no longer working with

its partner, Discovery Attr`ctions, because it couldn't confirm it

A new private partner will now be sought.

The council says it's committed to having a new centre in Sherwood

At the time we selected our partner they did in fact have the ftnding

available, but, as I said, hn a time of difficult funding circumstances,

there are original funding did not come through and they have struggled

in the period since to find new funders.

East Midlands Ambulance Service is predicting a huge rise

It's because the first Engl`nd match in the World Cup coincides with hot

Managers at Ambulance Control say they expect calls every few seconds

and have spent months plannhng for the event.

During the match itself, we will have a probably quieter than normal

Saturday night because many will being gauged in watching thd match,

but what we anticipate from 15 minutes afterwards is that we must

to see an increase in activhty, with a particular spike going on for the

latter part of 1am to 2am in the morning. `` we will see.

It's been a hot and humid d`y today, prompting a new warning

from a leading animal charity about the dangers of keeping dogs

The Dogs Trust says, despite repeated warnings,

almost half of owners still think it's OK to leave their anim`l

Sarah Teale has been investhgating just how dangerous that can be.

Even the professionals who `re paid to look after their dogs can make

Four years ago Nottinghamshhre Police dog handler Mark Johnson left

two of his German Shepherds inside his car in baking hot weathdr.

Despite that tragic reminder of the consequences, it seems the lessage

The Dogs Trust has released this campaign video, showing a dog ice

It comes on the back of their research,

which shows 46% of owners hdre in the East Midlands believd it s OK

I think some people think if they park in the shade or

if they leave the windows open that it's OK, but in fact that doesn t

make a noticeable differencd to the inside temperature of a car

So just how quickly can a car heat up?

The temperature is currently 23 degrees.

I've left my window slightlx open and we're going to leave thhs

inside my car for a few minttes to just see how hot it gets.

Now, we've only left it half an hour and already the temperature

Basically, once the body telperature reaches 41 degrees

the vital organs will no longer be able to function normally.

Unfortunately this can lead to organ failure in a very quick perhod `

Here at the Dogs Trust in Wxmeswold, they have to be absolutely sure

their animals don't suffer from the heat.

Particularly their very furry friends, lhke Luna,

who likes nothing more than a dip in the paddling pool to cool off.

Sarah Teale, BBC East Midlands Today, Leicestershire.

That is a very effective video, isn't it?

A ban on drinking in the streets across Nottingham has

seen alcohol confiscated allost 500 times in its first three months

Police and Community Support Officers have had the power to seize

The council says the idea is working.

More than half of the confiscations happened on streets in Notthngham

Derby's been shortlisted as a site for England's first new Further

It'll be dedicated to creathng rail engineers for High Speed Two,

Birmingham, Manchester and Doncaster are also in the running.

The Government should make its final decision next month.

Hundreds of children got the chance to find out what it was

like to be Second World War evacuees, although only bridfly

They were given the chance to re`enact warthme rail

The steam train journeys between Leicester and Loughborough

were organised by the Great Central Railway as part of a

With seeing the old steam trains and people in costume, it reallx gives

them a good insight into how it must have been for children their age to

have to leave their families, not knowing where they were going, so it

helps them understand and elpathise with people from that time.

It's finally emerged exactlx how much it cost

Derbyshire County Council to pay off its former chief executhve.

Nick Hodgson received almost ?220,000.

Nick Hodgson was sacked frol his role as chief executive of

Derbyshire County Council over a year ago. But it was only today that

we learned he was given a p`yoff of almost ?220,000. That is eqtivalent

to the pretty broad changes, perhaps even

adding a frisson of fear just to ring the changes, as it werd. Just

yesterday, the council annotnced it was cutting 27 senior managdment

posts, thereby saving ?2.25 million. But after a year of secrecy, we now

know exactly how much it cost to fill the council's Chief Exdcutive

post. The City of London is home to many

of the UK's major financial institutions, but now Nottingham can

boast its first Centre of Excellence Dunkirk Primary School's won

the accolade for teaching That's a brilliant idea, isn't it?

We could have done with that! And we've got more

from the classroom later on. We're with the kids who are dicing

with World Cup scores to improve At Trent Bridge Notts

Outlaws are up Derbyshire's match

against Worcestershire only got Leicestershire's match away

at Lancashire doesn't start Finally from me, back to thd World

Cup. With just over 28 hours till England

kick off their campaign, football While kids in playgrounds are

swapping World Cup stickers, maths teachers are using the tournament

to teach them about probability Jeremy Nicholas has been to one

football crazy school Not Rio de Janeiro,

but Radcliffe on Trent. Mr Burdes is a bit tall

for our pundit booth but he's man of the match for the kids

because he teaches maths ushng a World Cup model ` not the sort

that is married to a player. If a team rolled a six, then that's

a shot at goal and it's going to score unless the opposite tdam,

the opponents, roll a one to give The teams are all ranked

so they learn about probability It's something that doesn't happen

very often Excitement mounts

in the knockout stages with There is loads of

World Cup World Cup rivalrids of course, but here the big rivalry

is between those who collect the World Cup stickers and those

who collect the World Cup c`rds Playtime is a chance to get swaps

and everyone wants to get mdssy With the stickers you can stick

them down and no one can bug you to You can't get them back off

and it's really annoying, but with the cards you can swap them

and that's really good. Because you could easily drop them,

when with stickers you can't. If you card is Messi then you can

swap it for loads of bad onds. So, playtime is over, let's go

back in the classroom and fhnd out Despite the youngsters tipphng

the South American sides, It looks like a popular win,

but the real winner is maths, and the kids wouldn't swap Lr Burdes

for anyone ` he's a keeper. He clearly is! Back in 1970, I

collected cards. I'm delighted( ) Were you born in 1970? No!

Well, it's been another lovdly day, perfect if you went to spot the 225

leaving East Midlands Airport this morning. Thank you for sendhng this

picture in, James. Unfortun`tely, it looks like cloudy conditions

tomorrow, so no chance of sdeing it then. It is gained to be fedling

cooler this weekend but it should be mostly dry. `` it is going to be.

Across the weekend, we can dxpect there to be some bright sunny

spells. I will find them solewhere for you! A Met Office warning this

evening in force for heavy rain and the potential for thundery showers

to move South as we go throtgh the evening, leading to localisdd

flooding, so watch out for those of you are heading out and abott. Not

everybody will catch them, but where we do get them, some torrential

downpours, and those continte into the early hours of Saturday. A cue

me and muggy night with lows of 15. me and muggy night with lows of 15.

`` a humid. I am hopeful thd cloud will thin to give bright spdlls in

the afternoon as we go throtgh the day, but still the risk of ` few

showers, though definitely ` dry afternoon with temperatures a bit

lower than we have been used to 20 is your maximum. If you havd a

barbecue planned, it looks like it should be staying dry tomorrow

evening. A settled today on Sunday but plenty of cloud around `nd

temperatures at 19. Not bad. Not bad at all. Would you lhke me to

name the Brazil 1970 World Cup team? Let me think about that! No, I

wouldn't! England play tomorrow Don't forget! How could we( ) Have a

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